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words that sound the same but
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air - heir. allowed-aloud
altar-alter. ate - eight
band - banned. bare - bear
base - bass. bean - been
bite - byte. billed-build
blew - blue. board - bored.
boy - buoy. brake - break
bread - bred. buy - bye - by
ceiling - sealing. cell-sell
cent - scent. cereal - serial
check-cheque. coarse - course
dear-deer. die - dye
draft-draught. faint - feint
fair - fare. feat - feet
find - fined. flew - flu
flour-flower. gorilla - guerilla
grate-great. groan-grown
guessed- guest. hair - hare
hall - haul. heal - heel - he'll
hear - here. heard - herd
hi - high. higher-hire
him - hymn. hole-whole
holy - holey - wholly. idle - idol
it's-its. key-quay
knew - new. knight-night
knot - not. know - no
knows - nose. lead - fed
links - lynx. loan - lone
made - maid. mail - male
mare - mayor. marshal - martial
meat - meet. miner - minor
mind - mined. missed - mist
moose - mousse. muscle-mussel
none-nun. one - won. packed - pact. pain - pane
pair - pear. passed - past
pause - paws. pea - pee
peace - piece. peak - peek
plain - plane. plum - plumb
pole - poll. practice - practise
praise - prays - preys. principal - principle
profit - prophet. rain - reign
raise - rays. rap - wrap
read - reed. read - red
right-write. role - roll
root - route. rose - rows
sale - sail. soar - sore
scene - seen. sea - see
seas - sees - seize. sew - so
side - sighed. sight - site
sole - soul. some-sum
son-sun. stair-stare
stake - steak. steal - steel
sweet-suite. tail - tale
tear - tier. there - their - they're
threw - through. throne-thrown
tide - tied. tire-tyre
to - too - two. vain-vane-vein
wail - whale. waist - waste
wait-weight. watt - what
way - weigh - whey. we - wee
weak - week. wear - where
we'd - weed. we'll - wheel
weather - whether. which-witch
whine - wine. who's-whose
wood - would. your - you're
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